The advent of Christianity in Africa changed a lot of beliefs and practices; it is possible
that the spirituality of the African Traditional Religion (ATR) made Christianity
acceptable to the masses in Africa. Westernization ...

From the mid-19th century a certain consistent and encrusted paradigm in African
Christian historiography emerged, lamenting the voicelessness of the roles local people
played in the evangelisation of their kith and kin ...

The article examines the logic behind the establishment of the African National Council
(ANC) under the leadership of Bishop Abel Muzorewa and it further explores how the
movement got entangled in power politics of ...

This article investigates the phenomenon of “night dances” as an expression of fluid
cultural identities and a medium for contesting power by the youth within the context of
the ‘civilising’ influences of education and ...

In order to explain the challenges of human rights violations in Niger Delta, Nigeria
clearly, human rights violations were traced from the biblical era to contemporary society
using the excruciating trials of Jesus ...

With the advent of a new political dispensation in South Africa in 1994, the newly
elected government of South Africa changed the name of the public holiday on 16
December from “the Day of the Vow” to “the Day of ...

Reliving the past in everyday life may function as a constant reminder of an individual’s
past traumatic experiences, and if the person is not offered space in which to deal with
these memories, silencing persists. Many ...

The increasing popularity of the guest religions of Christianity and Islam on the continent
of Africa seems to have created the erroneous but widespread impression that the
religious insights, values and institutions of ...

Many Pentecostal or “born again” church services are characterised by the theology of
“deliverance from powers of darkness” that ruin the life of a Christian. Located within
the rubric of “powers of darkness” are African ...

This article focuses primarily on meaning and representation of the “other”. The
collective memory of primarily oral cultures about the ways in which knowledge about
them was collected, classified and then represented ...

According to Professor Hans Küng, there will be no peace among nations until there is
peace among the religions. People of religious belief constitute the majority of
humankind who share the same basic values, such as ...

Based on recent ethnographic research carried out in the last five years, this article offers
an examination of the changing roles of mainline churches in public life by exploring the
perceived loss of prophetic voice ...

This article attempts to show through correlative methods that public theology has
brought in a new awareness of the relevance of theology in post-colonial Botswana and
indeed in Africa as a whole. Correlative methods ...

The arrival of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe in the early 1980s caused pandemonium in a
young nation that was still basking in the glory of attaining political independence. With more than
75% of the population ...

The conversation on same-sex relationships in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
(MCSA) has been a long and emotional one. For ten years, this denomination, amongst
others, has struggled to define its own position ...

Jean-Marc Ela of the Republic of Cameroon has marked the contemporary world by his
writings whose echo went beyond its domestic readership. Ela, who popularly became
known as the “spokesperson of Africa’s diminishing ...

Before the dawn of democracy in South Africa, in the methodological debates that were
associated with who the interlocutor of Black Theology of liberation was, there was a
tacit understanding that not everyone who is ...

Much work has been carried out in respect of religious conflict in Nigeria. Most of it
focuses on perpetrators of collective violence, and the consequences on the victims, who
are generally caught in the web of the pact ...

The question on gender inequalities sounds strange in the circles of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Southern Africa. Currently, issues of hegemonic systems of
patriarchy and kyriarchy are not openly discussed given ...

Gabriel Molehe Setiloane engaged and challenged the Western theological discourse on
the structure and function of divinity. Most of his published dialogues pushed for the
importance of an African theological discourse. ...